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Talk starts by taking audience to a virtual spacecraft that will take them look at the bigger picture of our planet Earth. From far and far miles above.

From such a huge distance, it looks like one entity where everything is connected & it is hard for people to identify their origins,

However, when they look at the respective nation flags, they have something to connect to. Again, it is people perception & there is no actual physical separation on this planet.

However, our basic instinct that connects everyone on the planet is the gene to be human and help & support eachother for the betterment of the society & spreading humanity.

Software programming is another revolution that simplifies a lot of things in human life

Communication is the core issue among the distributed teams. Different time zones and conflicting working hours impact communication and collaboration. Cultural and language differences impact communication and collaboration. An effective tool chain is needed for requirements repositories, SCM, management, build and deployment setup, defect tracking, and project management tools. Three XP practices that are particularly valuable: TDD, CI, and test automationScheduling differences at the team level for various activities becomes more challenging with increasing levels of distribution. Time dynamics have positive and negative impacts on distributed teams.Improper and inappropriate telephone and video setup impacts communication and creates problems.Not providing access to calls, not set up for telephone calls in meetings, difficulty identifying an unseen speaker, need to encourage participants, limiting the conversation using round-robin technique, importance of mute, checking for any agreement or disagreement. Work week in USA, UK, Australia, Russia – Monday to Friday ( Saturday & Sunday – weekend ) Work week in Iran – Saturday to Thursday ( Friday : weekend) Work week in Saudi Arabia - Sunday to Thursday ( Friday & Saturday : weekend )

The communication effectiveness is very important catalyst for a success in distributed scrum teams

In addition, the Culture model, indicates the practical scenario where we can understand the effectiveness of Agile & Scrum adoption and its success ratio. An Agile model needs to be more towards collaborative and cultivating side.

Through the Hofstede's study, i want to touch upon the 5 parameters that we can leverage to analyze culture sensitivity of any geography.

Tuckman's team model highlights the various phases of Team formation and it is no different when we deal with scaling scrum team across different timezone or different geography.

Team's trust can't be build without strong communication base. Other than these soft aspects, there is a focus on infrastructure necessities that are needed for scaling scrum teams.

Team yellow – Best Self organized Distributed Team. Irrespective of the geographical boundaries, take time to recognize all team members. An E townall can connect everyone , like here Team Yellow wins the Best Team Award. ( team members from India & Australia being awarded )

The product owner and team need to also keep a view of upcoming sprints. Any body at a role of product owner / scrum master needs to have a very strong communication / broadcasting style to be able to keep all the distributed teams united.

Many times, this is combined with lots of trial and error and for that , you need a strong safety net to be able to protect you.

Regular retrospectives help us to determine the challenges and later brain storming is needed to resolve them.